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\"Best movies of the year" list includes Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty

Kam Williams annual "best movies of the year" list features 100 entries. And despite the cloud of controversy swirling around Kathryn's Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained both of these movies make the list.


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Tarantino: \"I wanted it to be shocking."

Director Quentin Tarantino talks about his new movie, Django Unchained, a Western featuring Jamie Foxx in the title role as a slave-turned-bounty hunter, and co-starring Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kerry Washington.

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Kam's Kapsules: weekly previews that make choosing a film fun

Kams Kapsules: weekly movie reviews that make choosing a film fun for the week of December 24.


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Staying In: DVD Review of Premium Rush

Premium Rush is an adrenaline-fueled adventure revolving around the derring-do of daring bike messengers who dart between cars and dodge pedestrians to make their deliveries.

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The Central Park Five: Film Review

A gross miscarriage of justice is recounted in The Central Park Five, a riveting documentary co-directed by the father-daughter team of Ken and Sarah Burns.       

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Torture scenes were not based on reality

The star of the new film "Zero Dark Thirty" is a flame-haired female CIA analyst Maya (played by Jessica Chastain) who is obsessed with finding Osama bin Laden.

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And where does Gandalf go when he disappears?

Much of the story isn't from "The Hobbit" itself -- but expanded from "The Lord of the Rings."And it deals with the questions you always wanted answered....

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'The Hobbit,' 'Any Day Now,' 'The Loving Story,' and more

Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun   


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Artists chosen to develop new works include Akhtar, Greenidge, Karam, Loomer, Zacarías

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival continues to expand its ongoing commitment to the development and production of new work with five new commissions for the 'American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle.'


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Delightful Docudrama Recounts Shooting of Horror Classic 'Psycho'

It wasn't long after the Hollywood premiere of North by Northwest in July of 1959 that Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) was already searching for his next project, since he was at his most content making movies. After passing on all the scripts being pitched by Paramount, the master of suspense became curious about a recently-published novel inspired by the gruesome exploits of a Wisconsin serial killer (Michael Wincott).


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